The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public SpaceGuilford Press, 2012 M02 21 - 270 pages Includes a 2014 Postscript addressing Occupy Wall Street and other developments. Efforts to secure the American city have life-or-death implications, yet demands for heightened surveillance and security throw into sharp relief timeless questions about the nature of public space, how it is to be used, and under what conditions. Blending historical and geographical analysis, this book examines the vital relationship between struggles over public space and movements for social justice in the United States. Don Mitchell explores how political dissent gains meaning and momentum--and is regulated and policed--in the real, physical spaces of the city. A series of linked cases provides in-depth analyses of early twentieth-century labor demonstrations, the Free Speech Movement and the history of People's Park in Berkeley, contemporary anti-abortion protests, and efforts to remove homeless people from urban streets. |
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Page 7
... capital and the state. By 1939, the U.S. Supreme Court had codified, and presumably vouchsafed, the right to speak in public spaces. But that did not stop (and has not stopped) innumerable jurisdictions from hemming in that right, and ...
... capital and the state. By 1939, the U.S. Supreme Court had codified, and presumably vouchsafed, the right to speak in public spaces. But that did not stop (and has not stopped) innumerable jurisdictions from hemming in that right, and ...
Page 11
... capital flows.9 I make no sure guesses as to what the future holds. But I do have some sense of—and I hope this volume helps to convey—what the past, and past struggles over public space, have held. If any of the events, trends, and ...
... capital flows.9 I make no sure guesses as to what the future holds. But I do have some sense of—and I hope this volume helps to convey—what the past, and past struggles over public space, have held. If any of the events, trends, and ...
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... Capital and just before the stu- dent and worker uprising of May 1968, Lefebvre's short book, Le droit à la ville, sought to outline what a specifically urban postbourgeois phi- losophy might be. Much of the book (now published in ...
... Capital and just before the stu- dent and worker uprising of May 1968, Lefebvre's short book, Le droit à la ville, sought to outline what a specifically urban postbourgeois phi- losophy might be. Much of the book (now published in ...
Page 20
... capital, suburban commuters, etc.) and for the rights of people over machines (such as cars) (Bunge 1971; Bunge and Bordessa 1975; Horvath 1971, 1974; see Merrifield 1995). Radicalized by the De- troit riots of 1967, and working both ...
... capital, suburban commuters, etc.) and for the rights of people over machines (such as cars) (Bunge 1971; Bunge and Bordessa 1975; Horvath 1971, 1974; see Merrifield 1995). Radicalized by the De- troit riots of 1967, and working both ...
Page 23
... . In the context of the radical restructuring of both capital and the state that has quickened since the structural crises that came quickly on the heels of the 1968 uprisings , arguments such as To Go Again to Hyde Park 23.
... . In the context of the radical restructuring of both capital and the state that has quickened since the structural crises that came quickly on the heels of the 1968 uprisings , arguments such as To Go Again to Hyde Park 23.
Contents
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Locational Conflict and the Right to the City | 81 |
Peoples Park the Public and the Right to the City | 118 |
AntiHomeless Laws and the Shrinking Landscape of Rights | 161 |
AntiHomeless Campaigns Public Space Zoning and the Problem of Necessity | 195 |
Toward a Just City | 227 |
Now What Has Changed? | 238 |
References | 247 |
Index | 271 |
About the Author | 278 |
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